Down In The Groove
by Bob Dylan
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Bob Dylan bestography
Down In The Groove is ranked 59th best out of 81 albums by Bob Dylan on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by Bob Dylan is Highway 61 Revisited which is ranked number 29 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 25,198.
(N.B. Bestographies include all albums by an artist (and their variations), but do not include albums ranked outside the top 100,000).
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Down In The Groove track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 70 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
Down In The Groove rankings
Calculated from aggregate positions across 60,000 charts (2 million album rankings). Click to see how the rankings are calculated (Last updated: 2 hours ago)
| Year | Source | Chart | Rank | Rank Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | Moondance | Top 100 Music Albums of 1988 | 84/100 | 1 |
| 2026 | fabm0 | List 1988 Pt 2 | 15/20 | - |
| 2026 |  Sandrof1969 | Top 20 Music Albums of 1988 | 19/20 | 1 |
| 2026 |  Repo | Top 87 Music Albums of 1988 | 36/87 | 3 |
| 2026 | Juneof44 | Top 50 Music Albums of 1988 | 23/50 | 3 |
| 2026 |  Pastiche | Top 28 Music Albums of 1988 | 20/28 | 2 |
| 2026 | lanadeleswift | Top 26 Music Albums of 1988 | 20/26 | 1 |
| 2025 | MaxStorm98 | Top 51 Music Albums of 1988 | 51/51 | 0 |
| 2025 | mjp11 | Top 9 Music Albums of 1988 | 9/9 | 1 |
| 2025 |  Larcx13 | Top 30 Music Albums of 1988 | 30/30 | 0 |
| Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. | 47 | |||
| Total Rank Score: The total rank score. | 24 | |||
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Down In The Groove ratings
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 08/23/2026 13:50 | JamesMowbray | 5,691 | 69/100 |
| ! | 06/19/2026 21:10 | Exist-en-ciel | 15,670 | 70/100 |
| ! | 02/23/2026 01:20 | BurndenAce | 1,322 | 76/100 |
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This album has a Bayesian average rating of 52.2/100, a mean average of 50.5/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 50.5/100. The standard deviation for this album is 20.3.
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Down In The Groove forum mentions
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Not much to say ~ a poor quality album that I would not recommend to anyone (despite being a Dylan fan for more than 50 years). The only saving grace is 'Silvio' - which is a song I really like.
Oh dear. This is really the lowest of the low. This has got to be Dylan's worst album. It's a flimsy attempt at? I don't know what. The cover of Shenandoah is quite nice, but in truth, there's nothing really to save this album unlike previous album, knocked out loaded. At least that had the wonderful Brownsville girl to get as close to redeeming it as it possibly could. No such luck here. Awful.
eclab 03/28/2014 02:59 | #107867
This probably the weakest album in Dylan's studio discography.
6½
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